Posted on 05/12/2014 4:45:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
If you’re like me this will send chills down your spine.
Nature Climate Change recently published a paper that contends that temperate zones will see reduced crop yields by 2030, presumably plunging the world into a man-caused famine not seen since the last time communists were in charge.
From Blue and Green Tomorrow:
“As more data have become available, we’ve seen a shift in consensus, telling us that the impacts of climate change in temperate regions will happen sooner rather than later,” said Professor Andy Challinor, lead author of the study.
Yes, any time I see the word “consensus” in the context of the "settled science" of global something I break out into a cold sweat, I hyperventilate and my sight grows dim.
And that should happen to you too.
Because I next wonder: “How much is this going to cost me exactly?”
But then I remember, upon studied reflection, that every time the WeatherNazis come to a consensus about anything they’re as wrong Hitler was in invading Russia without winter clothing.
“Oh, don’t worry,” he said. “It’s gonna be a lot warmer than people think.”
Certainly, it’s a lot warmer for him now.
For the estimated $100 billion annually that we will be spending on “climate change” programs by 2020, I’m thinking that there might be a better way to spend that money, like terraforming Mars for human population or throwing a really big Fourth of July Parade.
These are certainly better ideas than the rationing of electricity, wearing clothes made exclusively of hemp and dating chicks with hairy armpits.
Or driving a Chevy Volt.
But the news gets worse for liberals.
The indoor hemp industry apparently produces the same amount of carbon in the atmosphere as 3 million cars.
“'[I]ndoor Cannabis production uses 1% of the nation’s entire electricity consumption,' reports Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory researcher Evan Mills in the Huffington Post. 'This comes to energy expenditures of $5 billion per year.' While 1% may not seem like a lot, the report claims that smoking one single Cannabis joint is equivalent to running a 100-watt light bulb for 17 hours. That Cannabis cigarette carries two pounds of CO2 emissions."
I don't know what a gram of dope costs these days, but that's a lot of carbon for a gram.
While the doomsday date for the final destruction of mankind due to global warming gets pushed back farther and farther, I’m wondering if any of these WeatherNazis actually understand human history.
It would be wonderful if human activity could warm the planet.
The danger to civilization isn’t a warm planet, but a cold one.
It was only with the retreat of the last Ice Age that the ascendancy of modern man took hold. Without that, we’d all be living in caves, each of us ineligible to be president of the United States because we’d all still live in Kenya.
Instead we live in the house of cards that the president of the United States built—who by the way was born in Hawaii, a place much warmer than most of the globe; and presumably what Montana will be a lot like in the global something future.
Weather does influence culture, but not in the ways the alarmists would have you believe.
A new study by Matthew Ranson—no relation (my relatives know how to spell)—made possible by a fellowship from Harvard, predicts that because of global warming crime will spike, with your daughters unsafe to roam the streets day or night.
“The results show that temperature has a strong positive effect on criminal behavior,” writes Ranson, “with little evidence of lagged impacts. Between 2010 and 2099, climate change will cause an additional 22,000 murders, 180,000 cases of rape, 1.2 million aggravated assaults, 2.3 million simple assaults, 260,000 robberies, 1.3 million burglaries, 2.2 million cases of larceny, and 580,000 cases of vehicle theft in the United States.”
See and all this time I thought that dinosaurs failed to adapt and thus became extinct.
I never knew it was dino-on-dino crime caused by high global temperatures.
And so reports like these send chills down my spine.
Because believe me: It’ll cost us. One way or another, it’ll cost us.
That’s the liberal way.
Two pounds? That must be one hellofa spleef, man. Big Bamboo....
You too, huh.
I’m getting the road grader out to clear the drive down to the main road.
Still snowing.
> If they’d just let them grow it in the sunlight..
Yes, but smoking one joint is equivalent to running a 100W incandescent light bulb for 17 hours, at least according to the “settled science’ in the article.
If we are headed into a cold era, it's going to take every bit of GMO skill we can muster for people to survive.
... Bambu
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Wait... ...so that's why the liberals are pushing for gun control...
CO2 reduction is resulting in global cooling. The “warming” trend of the alarmists was the earth’s system balancing itself. They and their idiot minions are forcing the globe into a new ice age. Thanks dimmis.
I defer to one more experienced.
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That Cannabis cigarette carries two pounds of CO2 emissions
Assuming that the entire joint is carbon, and all of it converts to CO2, a 1 gram joint will release 3.7 grams of carbon dioxide.
That's 0.008 pounds of CO2. Two pounds of CO2 is 250 times more than reality. The author must be smoking his topic.
I had to look it up. ;)
No, he's including the carbon generated by the electrical power requirements to grow the plant to make the joint.
The word “contains” is being used in a peculiar way to denote the total amount of something (in this case CO2) involved in the production (in this case by release into the atmosphere). This strange use of “contains” as applied to “emissions” (that’s already an odd usage) can be found in critiques of “green” projects by other “greens”, for instance use of ethanol as a motor fuel, or use of solar panels — in each case considering the emissions in the production process along with those from the use of the technology.
I thought we were supposed to have been devastated by killer hurricanes and drowned by melting polar ice caps by now...
It’s time to invest in farm land in Greenland.
Well it's about time SOMEBODY started investigating the effects of solar activity on weather systems here on Earth. I mean, really, we're in the Sun's backyard here .... If solar emissions affect our electronic devices, then we might expect they may have other effects as well.
Just like the farms that used to be there...:^)
http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/voyage/subset/greenland/archeo.html
If it keeps up the Carbon Offset Market will crash and then how will I be able to sell all the carbon offsets I own in the Al Gore Carbon Bank?
Obama is right on this....with a new Executive Order.....
"This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow,and our planet began to heal.
Welcome King Barack "Canute" Obama the Great.....
...Obama issues an Executive Order to the Sun...
....to increase it's magnetic field....
and make a good crop of sunspots before elections in 2016....
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sunspot formation is triggered by a magnetic field, which scientists say is steadily declining. They predict that by 2016 there may be no remaining sunspots, and the sun may stay spotless for several decades.
The last time the sunspots disappeared altogether was in the 17th and 18th century, and coincided with a lengthy cool period on the planet known as the Little Ice Age....and lasted 400 years.
Good luck surviving with less electricity and GE modified seeds.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news203746768.html#jCp
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